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Face-to-Face or Facebook?
AVG’s latest global survey reveals the extent to which women are using technology to take control of their personal relationships. The survey, which was performed by Qualtrics®, used an online panel of 4000 women in six countries across the world in April 2013. Some have dubbed these new findings, rather unkindly, as the Digital Dumping [...]
Backup for your backup – It’s worth the price of a Chinese dinner
Richard Gordon and I have a lot in common. Our companies are in the information technology industry. We’re both based on the East Coast. We’ve been in business since the early 1990’s. We have approximately the same number of employees. We both implement contact management software (i.e. ACT! and others) to help our clients manage [...]
CTIA 2013: Day One Round Up
As the curtain falls on the first day of CTIA 2013, AVG’s Jas Dhaliwal and Brian Perry exchange notes on the most interesting points so far. With a focus on simplicity; making complex technology easy to use and understand, CTIA 2013 has got off to a cracking start and introduced some great ideas about our ever [...]
AVG research reveals women’s developing relationship with technology
We all recognize that face-to-face is usually better than Facebook when it comes to relationships, but when so many of us live such busy lives it’s not surprising technology is increasingly being used as a substitute for one-on-one, in-person contact. What’s more surprising is the extent to which women, both old and young, are now [...]
Why PrivacyChoice is pleased to become part of AVG
I’m tremendously proud and excited to announce that PrivacyChoice has become part of AVG Technologies, a global leader in providing protection, performance and privacy solutions. This means that Privacyfix will soon be available to over 150 million AVG customers around the world. As part of AVG, we now also have the resources and commitment to relentlessly [...]
Future of Cybersecurity: Imagine Only Having One Online Username and Password By 2016
As we heard in a panel today on “The Future of Cybersecurity” at CTIA 2013, the next goal of the cybersecurity industry will be to allow you to use only one username and password to log into all of your online services. The goal will be for you to have one trusted identity with one [...]
Mobile Cybersecurity: Smartphone Users Still Not Interested in Protecting Their Phones
We heard some interesting statistics revealed today at a cybersecurity panel at CTIA 2013. While 93% of computers have antivirus software installed, only 23% of smartphone users say they would want to add security applications to their phone. Additionally, only 50% of owners have enabled screen-lock on their smartphone. User-experience may be the most prohibitive [...]
Mobile Cybersecurity: Brace Yourself for Botnets
So what is a botnet? As defined during “Cybersecurity Summit: Market Trends & Research” at CTIA 2013, a botnet is a network of smartphones controlled by a single entity to do a coordinated task. And that task is a bad thing for your phone. PC botnets have been around for a while, but with the [...]
CTIA 2013: Day Two Roundup
We join AVG’s Jas Dhaliwal and Brian Perry as they discuss the highlights from the second day at CTIA 2013. CTIA is the world’s leading wireless and mobile technology conference and day two touched upon a subject that affects all of us: security. Jas claims that it’s clear users could still be doing a lot [...]
AVG gives users control over privacy with Privacy Choice acquisition
This year at CTIA 2013 there’s been a lot of focus on privacy and how people can protect themselves from giving up too much information online. After all, what you put online – stays online. AVG’s COO, John Giamatteo, thinks that Las Vegas is the perfect place for this debate and has been pioneering privacy [...]